Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-03-31


the children used 20 have the book; it
didn't look to me much better. And how
are We 10 be trained One of my fell
.ow-seryants had begun her hard life as
what they call in England slavey and
She had worked, worked, nothing but
worked: and she had not been 70 school
never had learned to sew; nobody took
any trouble with her except TO let her
drudge Sho bought her things ready
made. and when they went 10 rags bought
more. No mistress she ever had, and they
were good women, too, taught her any
thing but her work.
Then she married, and she knew moth
nv Of married life. She couldn't cook,
nor make loaf Of bread TO save her life
lthey all live on that dry bakers stuff,
nor make or mend her husbands or her
chiidreu's clothes, and so they lived and
died on bakers bread and greasy meat,
and watery potatoes, and strong tea, and
her husband drank, no wosder, and her
children died, ali the better, and she also
rests In peace.
One thing want 70 say Is this: We
need to be trained and educated. You
once said. ma'am, that 20 educate was to
educe. to draw out what was i US and
make Us worth something. Now our lives
in cur homes are very different from the
ways Of life when we 90 to the service
There ia no place where we can be trained,
and 20 we have to stumble on and do our
best Yet If 9 make mistakes We are
blamed OF discharged.
Now my notion is that very few ladies
understand their business And what
really mean is perhaps best told by what
I heard lady say, when the door was
open aud they wore talking earnestly. /
vas sitting in the next room sewing and
they knew | was there.
"Well, there is one thing, / have taught
my servants what they needed 20 knowand
have the satisfaction OF feeling that
have given a safe and quiet Christian
homo and the means of growing better
70 those who have lived in M house, |
knew that she had provided nice books
for them TO read; that she sent down the
weekly papers and religious and pictorial
papers TO keep them from the penny
dreadfuls.o There was another who not
only did these things, but encouraged
their confidence, advised and counaeled
them, and saved at least one from snares
and pitfalls that would have been her
ruin. They don't always know how friend
less and forlOrn We feel, nor how few
words of kindness may open our hearts.
There are those who, after so many years
OF service, instead OF raising wages, make
q present of a sum of money as an on
enlargement TO steady, faithful service.
Has IL not been fairly earnedt ! emit
help having the notion that better mis-
tresses would make better servants,
Many OF them have n character though
they may not have asked one FROM ser
want. And there are those who have such
name that no one who hears Il would
try 20 live with them. Gross and mean
and stingy and iucOnsidgrate.' We know.
And some mistresses do not know any
thing They expect tbeir servants to
know their duties and to do them, while
they themselves seem TO think they have
mono. Il was, Of course, q joke, but q
sorry one--iu Punch, perhaps Ihe cook
asks
"What shall we have for dinner, ma
AMY"
"Nhat did We have yesterday ~
"a leg of mutton, maam."
"Well. then, wen have a leg of beef TO-
day"
There are plenty OF uistrtsses who
and waste in the household, aud the mas
tor is discouraged and the servants are
blamed, when the head of the house is
ignorant md has failed in her duty. IT,
is not. 10 can not be beneath any woman
to attend TO details, TO see that things are
done deccutly and in order 20 direct
and instruct her servants without nag
glug. and to DO more careful than one /
lnAs L-- RY
character OF waitress, and sand: II am
not sure 1 missed some table-uapkinS,
ana 1 fear She took them, though / could
not prove it, ~Oh, I shouldn't mind
That's why, there isn't a week that some
OF miue don't Eol'
But how are Won ladies TO learn house
keCpng You see, my young ladies',
they wont 10 school, ard Saturdays they
were busy, and in tho summer they would
ge into the country. and thsy never seem
ga 20 have amy time. They might have
learned ii the mother cared and made
point Of il, and il she only knew how
much trouble IL WouiS save them by and
by, To my mind lady should know how
70 DO everything that she requires of her
servants That's what | should call intel
ligence, and sometimes If she would DO
U' ore IMAM HND uAt0 sue WbAil ne -htH HAtts
/ isn't the real ladies that are afraid TO
do things and 10 use their hands. ! have
heard tell OF those they call 'iadies of
rank" in other countries who understand
real, work and they -ay that it ia only here
shat women take pride in being useless.
don't know. No seems q poor kind of
pride. And with many OF them perhaps
1t is that they have suddenly become
rich, aud think that is the only way 10
show ID not 70 work. And youd think
somehow that work was the cRrse, when
really it was only oyerwork, 81, | under
stand il. Idle peoPl5 are mostly uu-
happy.
Then thore are different ways of treat
ing servants, and you would wonder
some times. You see a lady an smiles
and gracionsness, perhaps real Chris
tian woman, too, when she speaks to a
friend or acquaintance, and when she
turns 20 give an order she might be
speaking TO the dust under her feet. SO